YEMEN: EIGHT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG SMUGGLING

01 July 2010 :

a Yemeni court sentenced five Yemeni nationals, a Kenyan, a Somalian and a Tanzanian to death for smuggling 1.7 tonnes of drugs, the state news agency Saba reported. No further details were provided.

(Sources: Reuters, 29/06/2010)

other news

TAIWAN: HIGH COURT OVERTURNS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MALAYSIAN STUDENT'S KILLER

29 January 2026

The Taiwan High Court Kaohsiung Branch on January 29, 2026 resentenced Liang Yu-chih to life imprisonment for the 2020 rape and murder of a Malaysian university student, overturning a previous death sentence after a court-ordered retrial.

Read everything

IRAN - Abolfazl Beig Mohammadi and Javad Haghighat Hanged in Zanjan on January 27

29 January 2026 Read everything

IRAN - Hashem Abbasi executed in Ahar on January 28

29 January 2026 Read everything

IRAN - 11 people executed on January 28

29 January 2026 Read everything

IRAN - 6 men executed in Rasht between 7 to 18 January

29 January 2026

Mehran Shokat, Mousa Rahbar, Taher Yazdani, Ali Zadakbari, Mansour Asghari + 1

Read everything

IRAN - Hrana Report on 32nd day of protests: 6,373 confirmed fatalities, 17,091 under review

29 January 2026 Read everything

Urgent actions

URGENT APPEAL BY HANDS OFF CAIN TO AVOID THE ERASING EVIDENCE OF 1980S EXECUTIONS BY DESTROYING BEHESHT-E-ZAHRA SECTION 41 IN IRAN

25 August 2025 Read everything

All urgent actions

Giuseppe di Federico

Documents

All documents

Privacy & Cookies - Contacts - Credits

Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.